The $10M home that sold in less than a month

When a particularly extravagant home in Los Altos Hills was listed for $9.95 million in March, we didn’t think the house would sell for anything near the asking price — sellers were slashing prices all over the place, and there didn’t seem to be too many high-end buyers. (Data shows that sales were way up that month, but prices still slipped.)

Little did we know. Apparently the house at 13815 Barton Court (right), owned by the late Bradley Blackman, sold for the asking price, and in pretty good time, too — less than a month. The property sold to “Barton LLC” on March 30, according to public records, and it went for a smart $9.95 million, or $1,301 per square foot. It must be quite a house — in March the median sales price per square foot in Los Altos Hills was $719. And as of March, most Los Altos Hills homes remained on the market for more than two months.